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e fashion shows of designer Addy van den Krommenacker exude pure classical cinema.
Kim Novak, Veronica Lake and Joan Crawford could easily choose his elegant and refi ned
pearl satin dresses for having a gin fi zz in any cocktail bar. If there is something that this
Dutch designer knows how to do with his mastery, it is recreating the elegance of the
golden age of Hollywood and making it available to today’s woman.
His creations, elegant and distinguished with precise patterns, tailored waists and a studied
hang, envelop the delicate fi gure of a woman who wishes to be elegant, special and breath-
takingly feminine with care and brilliantly luxurious materials, recovering the glamour of
50s and 60s cinema.
In a shifting and increasingly androgynous aesthetic universe, one in which the reinterpre-
tation of femininity is at the forefront, Addy van den Krommenacker looks backward in or-
der to recover the mysterious women refl ected so well in the cinema of previous decades.
It is no surprise, then, that his unabashed objective is for today’s woman to feel like a
princess, an aim that can be felt in each pleat and every hang of his dresses. In the game of
seduction that he proposes, the women he dresses need only show up to draw attention to
themselves, to make the slightest gesture to cause a sensation wherever they go.
Photography by Jeroen Snijders
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Addy van den Krommenacker
e designs of Addy van den Krommenacker
are conceived for standing out on the red
carpet, due to their delicacy, feminine forms,
and, more than anything, the fact that the
Dutch designer knows better than anyone else
the meaning of the word “elegance” linked to
the most cinematographic glamour.
Photography by Jeroen Snijders
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Addy van den Krommenacker
Photography by Jeroen Snijders
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Addy van den Krommenacker
- What inspires you?
My inspirations are movie stars throughout the decades. Women are so elegant in the movies of the 50s and 60s. I like
to make clothes with the area of those times and the comfort of today.
- What is your dream as a designer?
My dream is that women all over the world feel like princesses in my clothes and are happy that they bought a dress
from my collection.
- What has been the most important achievement of your career?
e most important achievement is my prize of best foreign designer at the Look of the Year event in Italy.
- How important are trends?
Trends are important, but I like to make clothes that are timeless, which you still can wear whenever you want to. On
the other hand, I like to dress stars in trendy clothes of mine.
- What does fashion refl ect in the twenty-fi rst century?
Fashion these days is a combination of the 50s and the 80s. Clothes nowadays need to be comfortable and practical
while retaining the glamour of the new area.
- What book would you recommend to every fashion designer?
e book I would recommend is the history of Balenciaga.
Addy van den Krommenacker
Verwersstraat 79
5211 HV ’s–Hertogenbosch
e Netherlands
www.addyvandenkrommenacker.nl
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Addy van den Krommenacker
Photography by Jeroen Snijders
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